Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Site Placement News
Site announcements today and much excitement as we 44 are assigned to locations all over the country. Just a quick note to let you know I'll be in a village near the city of Oradea in Northwest Romania, near the Hungarian border. It will actually be quicker for me to get to Budapest than to Bucharest. Oradea has an airport it seems! The assignment is not what I was lead to believe I'd get when I went through the interview process, but I'm assured by some of the current volunteers who know the country well that this is a beautiful area and that the people here are forward-thinking and hospitable. I'll be working with 5th-8th graders. And though I had wanted high school students, apparently the need in the village is something the placement officials saw as right for me. I'm trying to find out more about the area and will visit there with my counterpart in a couple of weeks. Will let you know more as I find out in the next few days. To those of you who knew the assignment I thought I would have--well, with the Peace Corps, you just never know.
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Clela, I've looked up this location and it looks great! And you're close enough to the Ukraine that maybe you can use some of that Russian language study, too. Can't wait to hear more.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's good to know where you'll be, even if it's not what you were expecting. Now you can start to adjust and get your head around it. Sounds like it will be great! And you can vacation in Budapest, which I loved. :-)
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